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1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Summary |
This work demonstrates the change in how speakers use language to request, thank, and perform other interpersonal verbal tasks in Hmong, an immigrant language now spoken in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, as well as in its native Laos. Since the changes that have taken place in Hmong follow directly from the language's extended contact with American English, this book illustrates the localized, specific, pragmatic effects of language globalization on a small, displaced language community. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: the Hmong and language shift -- Language shift and pragmatics -- Requests by two generations of speakers -- Wisconsin Hmong speakers' responses to helpful acts -- Advice for a face-threatening situation -- Towards a pragmatics of language shift -- Appendix A: Hmong language speech act realization questionnaire -- Appendix B: consonants, vowels and tones of Hmong -- Bibliography -- Index of proper names -- Subject index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Hmong language -- Wisconsin -- Usage.
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Hmong language. |
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Wisconsin. |
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Hmong language -- United States -- Usage.
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United States. |
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English language -- Influence on Hmong.
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English language -- Influence on Hmong. |
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Languages in contact.
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Languages in contact. |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773412941 |
ISBN |
9780773417335 |
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0773417338 |
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9780773412941 |
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0773412948 |
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